Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:ffffffffAborting Backup.

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The operation did not successfully complete.

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Note that both Microsoft Shadow Copy Services and Volume Shadow Copy services are running. I've tried some solutions that I've found online, such as re-registering the .dll files, but none seem to work so far. Any help will be appreciated.

For anyone else that has this problem: we've been able to fix it and get the backups running regularly again. I think it had something to do with the registry, I ran ccleaner on the server, then restarted it and for the past week its been running smoothly, so I'm thinking that did the trick.

It's good you got it working but if your backups punk out again in the next few weeks/months, do yourself a favor and follow my advice. If it happens again, it will keep happening until you redo the backup set(s).

I've always hated using registry cleaners and typically recommend people avoid using them.

I've had quite a few occasions where backups on MS boxes that utlized ntbackup stopped working correctly and found the best solution in the long run was to just delete the original backup and then recreate it fresh.

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